Patricia Field, Untitled, Revenge, Enz and Trash & Vaudvill were just some of the shops that made the scene. Patricia Field provided a freak show for shoppers by hiring nightlife talents to work in her shop. People like Connie Girl, Coddy, Perfidia, Amanda Lepore, JoJo America Tasty Tim and many others. A visit to her shop was like an entrance to the hippest club in New York. People watching could entertain one’s eye all day. Punks, freaks and fashionistas of the late 70’s & early 80s graced the sidewalks of St. Marks. Once clubs like Boy Bar, The Ritz, The Saint, The World, Save The Robots and Pyramid have been or still are part of this famous neighborhood. CBGB, the nightclub considered to be the birthplace of punk music, is located near here on the Bowery. Other important East Village clubs were the Mudd Club, A7 & the Mercer Arts Center all of which are now closed. Max's Kansas City another important club was located just outside the neighborhood. No Wave and New York Hardcore, emerged as genres from this area. Among the many important bands and singers who got their start at these clubs were: The New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Arto Lindsay, The Ramones, Blondie, The Talking Heads, The Plasmatics, Glenn Danzig, Sonic Youth, Madonna, The Beastie Boys, Anthrax, The Strokes, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, The Lounge Lizards & many others. The East Village has also been the home of cultural icons and movements like the Warhol superstars, folk music to punk rock, anti-folk to hip-hop & Electro & experimental theater like Black Lips to the Beat Generation. Club 57, on St. Mark's Place, was an important incubator for performance and visual arts in the late 70’s and early 80’s, followed by 8BC. During the 1980s the East Village art gallery scene helped to galvanize modern art in America with such artists as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, & Jeff Koons,
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